Falklands' response to Malcorra's statements of air links to Argentina and the oil industry

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The Falkland Islands Government has acknowledged it is aware of media coverage of Argentine foreign minister Susana Malcorra referred to proposals of possible air links between the Islands and Argentina as well as talks on other areas of interest such as the fishing and hydrocarbons industries. Read full article

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Think
Geeeeeeeeee.......

The Engrish Foreign and Colonial office made her Uruguayan employees work on as Saturday just to tell us that the FIG(leaf) reads some bloody newspapers!

Chuckle chuckle...
Sep 10th, 2016 - 12:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Pugol-H
Pointing out the discrepancies between Ms Malcorra’s world, and the real one.

Where she is not going to be UN Sec Gen.
Sep 10th, 2016 - 01:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Skip
I guess that is why some countries are more developed than others. It's all about the effort.

Thanks to the British invention of the Internet.
The American development of computing.
And the Australian invention of wifi.

It probably wasn't that onerous for someone to post this.

However as Argentina invented the biro.... well I can see why you would think this might entail more work than necessary.
Sep 10th, 2016 - 01:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
@ 3 Skip
“However as Argentina invented the biro....”

Oh no they didn't! :o)
Sep 10th, 2016 - 01:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
Enligtning them Turnips...

AFAIK. the Internet invention is officially attributed to Mr. Bob Kahn, genetically a Polish/Hungarian Jew and Mr. Vint Cerf, genetically a German Protestant...

AFAIK. the first (and second and third and fourth) working binary computer invention is officially attributed to Mr. Konrad Zuse genetically a German Protestant...

AFAIK. the Wi Fi wasn't invented, but evolved from the early work in the sixties of a scientific team composed of individuals of Polish, Swedish, Chinese, German and Anglosaxon genetic origin...

AFAIK. the Birome or Ball Pen was invented by Mr. Lazlo Biro, genetically a Austro/Hungarian Jew...
Sep 10th, 2016 - 02:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Pugol-H
@5 Think
German and Anglosaxon genetic origin...??????

I think you’ll find you cannot tell them apart, any more than you can tell Danes and Anglo Saxons apart, genetically speaking.

So we came in first in the table, with the Polish/Hungarian Jews some way behind in second.

Chinese probably think they’re a victim of a western plot.
Sep 10th, 2016 - 02:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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bushpilot
“genetically a German Protestant”

Protestantism is not usually attributed to DNA. Are we referring to “northern” Germans?

As if German Protestants and German Catholics have distinctly different genes! That is funny!

Additionally, a genetic makeup exists in an environment. These two, only taken together, lead to an organism's outwardly observable appearance and performance.

So, the credit has to be given to the culture that the “genes” exist in also.

The environment called, “Argentina” also has “genetically German Protestants”.

Brazil too. Have these “genetically German Protestants” made any comparable contributions to humanity. Why not, if they are of the same genes?
Sep 10th, 2016 - 02:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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The Major
Geeeeee wiz, does anyone give shit?
Sep 10th, 2016 - 04:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Skip
AFAIK..... usually not much without the use of Google.

Note the use of the word.... development not invention.

Oh and Wi-Fi uses a standard. Hence why my country has made nearly half a billion dollars off its patent. Including your payment. Thank you. Unsure what their genetic makeup or religions were but AFAIK wifi is based on an invention of the CSIRO.

Fudge all you want. Can't change fact.

But so glad I got you working on a weekend! LOL

Guess the biro was invented by the first person to pluck a feather off a bird and dip it in ink.
Sep 10th, 2016 - 04:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
Geeeeee. Skippy..... You are such an insecure youngster....

If it makes you happy, i do believe that some Austalian institute has patented some piece of of http protocol that pays some dividends...

If it makes you feel happy, I also believe that Ozzies invented the Woomera and Australian rules football...

Feeling more tranquil now?
Sep 10th, 2016 - 04:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Islander1
Think- I do appreciate that successive Arg Governments- including the current on -fantasize about Colonial Ambitions and taking over a group of Islands AGAINST the wishes of its people - ie COLONIALISM.

But the UK gave up Colonialisation decades ago- that is why for a few decades ago the Foreign Office was renamed - Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

or do you still consider S.Africa-Canada-India etc to be British Colonies?

Yes the are a few very small Colonies still about- BECAUSE their PEOPLES WANT to remain in close association with the mother country - its called democracy.
Sep 10th, 2016 - 04:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
(11) Islander1

Yeahhhhhh..... Whatever.....
Cut the Dogma and give us your guesstimate for the upcoming Census....
Sep 10th, 2016 - 05:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Clyde15
#5
Enlightening el nabo supremo
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS (born 8 June 1955),[1] also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989,[3] and he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet sometime around mid-November of that same year.[4][5][6][7][8]
Sep 10th, 2016 - 05:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Skip
Yes, thank you Think, Aussies did invent the Woomera and our own sporting code.

I am indeed feeling tranquil and appreciate your lack of comeback.

Some other inventions or breakthroughs by Aussies that might interest someone of your advanced years: Cochlear implant, Electronic pacemaker, Ultrasound scanner, Plastic spectacle lenses and Permanent-crease clothing.

Your welcome!

Thanks for the pen.
Sep 10th, 2016 - 05:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
Lowlander at (13)

Just for your kind info...:
INTERNET and the WORLD WIBE WEB (WWW). are NOT the same thing...
http://www.infogineering.net/web-internet.htm

John de Bernières... huhhh?
Nice Norman surname ;-)
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Clyde15
#15
For your info. Norman surname..so what. They arrived after 1066...almost 1000 years ago. I think that entitles them to be called British as no doubt their bloodline has been mixed with various Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Welsh, Irish,Scots and whoever their progenitors took a shine to.

if you had to isolate the key inventors of the Internet, it would have to be two people: Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn. The WWW, which is different from the Internet, but what most people think of as the “Internet”, was invented later by Tim Berners-Lee. “A rose by any other name”
#14

Q:
Who invented the first ultrasound machine?
A:
Quick Answer
Dr. Ian Donald invented the first ultrasound machine in 1957 and tested it on patients a year later. The discovery was made in Glasgow, Scotland, and by the end of the 1950s ultrasounds became routine in Glasgow hospitals.

I can remember my sister telling me that she was using this new medical wonder in Rottenrow Maternity Hospital in Glasgow in 1959 when she was a mid-wife.
Like a lot of inventions, they were the result of various pieces of research that had gone on before.

I can remember seeing Ultrasound being used at Yarrow's during the building of a Frigate for the RN. They used it to test for flaws in the welding of the plates on the ship's hull.
Sep 10th, 2016 - 06:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Faulconbridge
As the only reason Argentina would want a regular air link with the Falkland Islands is so that they could shut it down when they thought it would be most awkward for the Islanders, why bother with one?
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Think
Anglo Turnip at (17)
That's not the only reason...!
We want them Kelpes to fly in our controlled atmosphere pressurized plane cabins in order to spray them with diverse mind & birth control substances...
Sep 10th, 2016 - 07:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Kanye
Biro

Invented by a Hungarian
Developed in Germany
Patented in Britain in 1938

Intellectual property rights were turned over to Argentine 'partners' near the end of WWII in exchange for getting his family out of Hungary.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/books/politics-human-intrigue-flow-through-ballpoint-pens-history-ink-stained-story-165829326.html?device=mobile
Sep 10th, 2016 - 10:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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The Voice
Think@1 Having to work on weekends is a bore. Still its chucking it down in Dunoon all weekend making it difficult to stroll down the chippy.

Lan or AA? Bahahaha. No contest. Still 20 arsewipes to the £ I see.
Sep 10th, 2016 - 10:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Islander1
Think- Ok, my guess - population approx. 3200, over 25 different nationality origens in todays islands population.
Sep 10th, 2016 - 11:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Kanye
My guess, 80% describe themselves as “Falkland Islanders”, and 100% deny they are “rightful Argentine owners”.
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Brit Bob
Regarding Falklands oil exploration, Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana stated in February 2010, that his Government would take 'all measures necessary to preserve our rights' and also reiterated that Argentina had a 'permanent claim' on the islands, saying 'Buenos Aires would complain to the UN over the oil project and might take the case to the International Courts of Justice in the Hague.

Yawn
Sep 11th, 2016 - 09:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Islander1
22-Kanye- reckon you will be about right if that question is on the form again.
Although the result last time did upset a few silly newspapers in UK who could not grasp that being a Falkland Islander - and British- was no different to a Welsh person being Welsh and British.
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Think
(24) Islander1

Maybe them “Silly UK Newspapers” could not grasp wht them Kelpers cost the Uk some 400,000£ a year per capita in defence and them Taffys don't...

Maybe them “Silly UK Newspapers” could not grasp why them Taffys pay their UK taxes and them Kelpers don't...

Maybe them “Silly UK Newspapers” could not grasp why any Brit can freely move to Wa-yels.... but absolutely not to Malvinas...

Maybe them “Silly UK Newspapers” could not grasp why the UK must lose a lot of business in Latinamerica because of a few Kelper squidllonaires whilst a million Taffys had to lose almost everything in the name of economic pragmatism....

Maybe....
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Terence Hill
25 Voice, V0ice, Vestige, Think et al, sock-puppeteer, and imitator extraordinaire
“UK Newspapers could not grasp wht them Kelpers cost the Uk some 400,000£ a year per capita in defence ”
”Notwithstanding the first few years after the conflict, when South Atlantic expenditure was greatly consumed by the construction of RAF Mount Pleasant (operational from 1986), the amount spent wasn't overly significant. In 1986-7, it was only 2.23% of total defence expenditure, and by 1989-90, a mere 0.33%. At their height (1982-3), the war's effects represented only 6.76% of total defence expenditure.”
http://nikdarlington.blogspot.com.br/2010/05/falklands-war-cost-benefit-analysis.html
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The Voice
25 “lost business in Latin America”?? What lost business? Please name the business the UK lost and then name the business the UK got. Supplies of Single Malt? Or is it that that clouds your judgement? Spell it out… Furious research activity at 65 Brook Street .

Chuckle chuckle..
Sep 11th, 2016 - 04:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Enrique Massot
Meanwhile, the Argentine government will go to public hearings Sept. 16 on natural gas utility prices without revealing the real costs of production, transportationand distribution of gas.
Minister Aranguren has said the government is not obligated and will not present such information.
A study commissioned by the newspaper Página/12, meanhile, shows that two companies transporting gas (TGN and TGS) sent 63 million dollars and 225 million dollars respectively to its shareholders abroad in concept of “honorariums for technical assistance” between 1998 y 2015.
This demonstrates that, while the companies claimed to be unable to invest in improvements, they were sending large benefits abroad.
The maneuvers also allow the companies to claim losses and the need for higher tariffs.
While the companies' drive to maximize benefits is to be understood (after all, corporations' mission is to make profits for themselves) what is astounding is the minister's apparent participation in the maneuver by refusing to disclose the real numbers justifying the tariffs increases.
Could some genetic predisposition be plaguing the former Shell CEO?
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James Marshall
@12....0% will give their home address as Las Islas Malvinas, Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina. Just a guess though
Sep 11th, 2016 - 05:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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gordo1
@28 Quiqui

What relevance does your post have to this thread?
Sep 11th, 2016 - 06:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
Anglo turnip at (30)

...... That it is one billion times more interesting than your post in this thread!
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Enrique Massot
#30 Gordo
It will be my pleasure to answer you as soon as you post an analysis of the relevance to the above story of most previous posts.
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Kanye
2008-2015

Seems like that was during the Evita K regime - what were they thinking???

“Abroad”?
Argentine bank accounts in Switzerland?
Argentine politicians with residences in NYC or Miami??
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Think
(32) Enrique Massot...

:-)))
Sep 11th, 2016 - 08:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Briton
Just say no to the argies,

No means No-Right ?
Sep 11th, 2016 - 08:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Englander
If anybody ever wanted to chin Malcorra they'd be spoilt for choice.
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Kanye
2008-2015

perhaps Venezuela asked for some of $15b back that Chavez fronted to Evita K's gov.?

Perhaps China got a return on their investment in Argentina's commodities and infrastructure, under Evita K?

Yeah, lots of questions.
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Hepatia
England will return the Malvinas within 25 years.
Sep 12th, 2016 - 01:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Skip
To Spain?
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Kanye
Where were they?
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gordo01
@31 Think

To which of my posts are you referring?
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Porkchop
Dip shat @ 25.

The UK is the worlds 5th largest economy regardless of potential lost trade with SA. Tell me, where does Argie land fit on the economic league table?

Chuckle, chuckle!
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Englander
That particular dip shat is living in the Kirchner past.
Current leaders of Argyland are business friendly and want to develop good relations with UK. Falklands will be off the agenda for the foreseeable future and will then be conveniently forgotten.
Good news for UK, Falkland Islanders and Argyland.
Bad news for BAe Systems.
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Rosbif
Hepatia, yes, we want it.
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gordo1
@38 Hepatitis

England can do nothing without the acquiescence of Scotland, Wales and Northern Island. We are a United Kingdom, you see! NABO!
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Pugol-H
@28 Enrique Massot
We have ofgem.

https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/ofgem-publications/64003/pricecontrolexplainedmarch13web.pdf

Which control gas and electric prices as well as profits made, all companies have to declare figures, no exceptions.

May not stop money going abroad, but at least you know how much and what is being invested.
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Briton
Hepatia,
you have been working so hard this year,
what with the English and all that, you need a break,
a holiday perhaps,

The Sun is a nice place this time of year,
great place for a sun tan...lol
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HughJuanCoeurs
Hepatia at @38... here is a little ditty that might help you to understand the situation (with thanks to the original of “Yes we have no bananas”

Yes, we have no Malvinas
We have-a no Malvinas today.
We've Falklands, and Pitcairns
St Helenas and Ascensions,
And all sorts of Gibraltar,
We have an old fashioned Bermuda,
A Tristan da Cunha,
But yes, we have no Malvinas.
We have no Malvinas today.
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Pugol-H
Very good indeed, might even make it as a football chant.
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Voice
48
Catchy...well done...
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